posted on 2019-06-05, 00:00authored byQifan Zhou, Fangyu Du, Yuanguang Chen, Yang Fu, Wenjiao Sun, Ying Wu, Guoliang Chen
l-(−)-Quebrachitol (QCT) has been found as a ligand
of copper powder for selective N-arylation of nitrogen-containing
heterocycles with aryl halides. Furthermore, another potential catalytic
system (copper powder/QCT/t-BuOK) was successfully
adapted to unactivated aryl chlorides.